Rock legend Iggy Pop reads Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle” for Cannes, as part of a promo for the Grey Music Seminar in the Palais, where Grey London chairman and chief creative officer Nils Leonard will interview Iggy. From Leonard:
“2016 will be the year we lost heroes. But I worry that people are starting to wait for the next cultural figurehead to mourn, and it’s bullshit. Like the world’s worst meme,” Leonard says. “Incredible living artists and icons continue to challenge and define our culture, and Iggy is their viking king. Iggy has shrugged off what age is supposed to mean, convention, and expectation. He’s grown old disgracefully and successfully. He is a real-life beautiful and vicious inspiration.”
He adds: “Heroes walk among us still. We have a lot to learn from the man Josh Homme called ‘the last of the one and onlys.’ Social, commercial pressures and the visibility of what we make in the creative industries has made us safe. Iggy, and the challenge and danger he brings, reminds us of the true power of creativity to move things on. That when things start to get boring, the only way out is to innovate, to create and to never stop diving in.”